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• Judge who filed $54 million lawsuit over lost pants lost his lawsuit - the legal profession lost much more

  Dale Emch | June 25, 2007 3:43 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  An administrative law judge who filed a $54 million lawsuit after claiming his dry cleaners lost his pants lost his case today. Reason obviously prevailed.The lawsuit was an embarrassment for all lawyers - not just trial lawyers - because it did further damage to our profession. It allowed the people who are trying to curtail the rights of the injured and wronged to point to an obvious abuse as...

• Legal problems won't go away by ignoring them

  Dale Emch | June 18, 2007 12:10 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Nobody likes to receive legal documents in the mail, but ignoring them and hoping the issue will go away can spell big trouble.That's the answer I gave in my most recent column in the Toledo Blade to a reader who had received what I suspect was a complaint and summons more than a year ago. The reader wondered whether she still had to respond because so much time had gone by and she hadn't heard...